Michael Gilbert

Michael Francis Gilbert was a lawyer in London for many years and at one point had Raymond Chandler as his client. He also had a very long and very productive writing career, beginning with his first novel, Close Quarters, in 1946 and continuing through 1999 with Over and Out. He wrote almost every sort of mystery and thriller, including police procedurals, spy stories, courtroom dramas, classical mysteries, adventure thrillers, and crime novels.